I believe there is a big difference between being introverted and having social anxiety - I think I qualify for both descriptions but I see them as two separate things. Being introverted just means you need alone time and don't crave so much social interaction. Social anxiety is a paralyzing fear that prevents you from being able to interact socially even when you want/need to. Lots of introverts are happy being introverts but I have a hard time believing that anyone with social anxiety wouldn't desire a cure.
Keep in mind that the Richter scale is logarithmic. A 9.0 releases a million times more energy than a 5.0 (and a 5.0 is still quite destructive). So if you want to dissipate the energy of a 9.0 in a series of 5.0 earthquakes you are going to be shaking continuously for years.
The carbon impact from FB is also much bigger then they are claiming - I am sure that is just the power consumption at their data center, and does not include the power to make the equipment used at their data-center, nor the power to transmit all that data from them to the end-user, nor the power that the end-user's computer uses.
A two-week short course sounds pretty silly. 2 semesters sounds better. And a well-structured programming course for non-majors should focus less on the particulars of a certain language and more on how to think logically and break a problem down into parts. These are skills that many people lack and which will serve people well even if they never do more programming in their life. It just happens that programming is an ideal structure to teach this in. This is also why geometry is a good thing to teach, even if most people don't use it - it's the only exposure many people get to the concept of a logical proof.
Programming also helps with communication - I can write a set of instructions for another human to follow, and think of every detail and break it down step by step. This is a skill I got from programming. Most people can't do it.
Plus there is a need for everyone to have a well rounded education to understand the things in the world around them. This includes the humanities, physics, chemistry, biology, and technology.
I vote for the people who fund the telescopes or nukes. What I can do, personally, is vote for people who support funding programs to detect asteroids (and funding for science in general). I don't lie awake worrying about asteroid strikes, but I do try to voice my opinion for reasonable public policy.
We can, and should, do something about it. It's not that hard to do. It takes lots of big telescopes to detect them a long way off. If you detect them far enough out you only need to give them a small nudge to change their course enough to avoid a collision.
the overall reflectivity drops with the square of the asteroid's diameter
Wouldn't it increase with the square of the diameter, because that's the surface area? Mass of course increases with the cube of the diameter, so the surface area to mass ratio decreases by the power of 3/2 with the diameter. The rest of what you said sounds right, so yes, it does take a really big telescope to detect them a long way off. The "average Joe" discoveries usually happen when they are already very close - too close to do anything about them.
But what is the reasonable precaution here? You say "Much Bigger Rockets" a few posts ago but what do you do with them? Do you build them and just leave them sitting around and hope we can knock an asteroid out of the sky with one? If instead we build the capability to detect all killer asteroids 20 years out (which seems reasonable with today's technology (it will be expensive, but less so than our wars)) then we would have 10 years to build a big rocket and get it to an asteroid and give it a tiny nudge, and a tiny nudge would be all it takes if you do it when the asteroid is still 10 years away. A detection network probably involves an array of space based telescopes and supercomputers to crunch the data, and we probably get a lot of good side uses out of that. There are lots of good side uses for big rockets too, but they don't help you deflect asteroids if you can't detect them years in advance.
Also regarding you comment on lightning and shark attacks, those kill individuals, not humanity. Big difference.
when it passes over a huge city with lots of clients
Big cities will probably have no clients because there will be better ways to get internet access in a big city. This will be great for rural areas and ships in the middle of the ocean, and thus load will never be concentrated.
Acknowledging the consequences of gender is not sexist.
Yes, but calling for segregation is. So is stating that women are not capable of handling criticism (unless you've got some objective evidence). He said both of those things.
What's wrong with standing by that particular opinion is that it is idiotic. He should be back-pedaling hard. I'd sure like to see more people (especially politicians) standing by well thought-out opinions, but this doesn't qualify as one.
Um, no. We can, for example, make ethanol which we can use for fuel (not that I am endorsing that particular strategy). And sunlight and wind are effectively unlimited (until the sun burns out, in which case we would need to find a new home anyway). Uranium, coal, oil, and gas will run out long before that. That is difference between "fossil" and "renewable".
A normal functioning pancreas can't predict the future either. All it can do is react to what it is sensing, just like the artificial one. It may be more finely tuned, better sensors, better algorithms, etc, but none of that represents anything that couldn't be incrementally improved in the artificial pancreas.
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He just said that a judge, who is a natural born US citizen, cannot be impartial in the suit against Trump because of his ethnicity. That's racist.
I believe there is a big difference between being introverted and having social anxiety - I think I qualify for both descriptions but I see them as two separate things. Being introverted just means you need alone time and don't crave so much social interaction. Social anxiety is a paralyzing fear that prevents you from being able to interact socially even when you want/need to. Lots of introverts are happy being introverts but I have a hard time believing that anyone with social anxiety wouldn't desire a cure.
Especially when you have a team of assistants following you around carrying all your stuff for you anyway.
Deserting his post is the least of his crimes. How about lying to start a war in which thousands of American soldiers died? How about torture?
bad metrics lead to bad results. Who would've guessed?
Gotta go, must write a million lines of code so I am "productive".
Keep in mind that the Richter scale is logarithmic. A 9.0 releases a million times more energy than a 5.0 (and a 5.0 is still quite destructive). So if you want to dissipate the energy of a 9.0 in a series of 5.0 earthquakes you are going to be shaking continuously for years.
Who? Federal judges are appointed for life.
From TFA: "Samsung guarantees the 2TB 850 Pro for 10 years or 300 terabytes written (TBW), and the 2TB 850 EVO for five years or 150 TBW."
So the warranty is limited to 150 write cycles regardless of age for the Pro, and 75 for the EVO. That doesn't sound good to me.
The carbon impact from FB is also much bigger then they are claiming - I am sure that is just the power consumption at their data center, and does not include the power to make the equipment used at their data-center, nor the power to transmit all that data from them to the end-user, nor the power that the end-user's computer uses.
A two-week short course sounds pretty silly. 2 semesters sounds better. And a well-structured programming course for non-majors should focus less on the particulars of a certain language and more on how to think logically and break a problem down into parts. These are skills that many people lack and which will serve people well even if they never do more programming in their life. It just happens that programming is an ideal structure to teach this in. This is also why geometry is a good thing to teach, even if most people don't use it - it's the only exposure many people get to the concept of a logical proof.
Programming also helps with communication - I can write a set of instructions for another human to follow, and think of every detail and break it down step by step. This is a skill I got from programming. Most people can't do it.
Plus there is a need for everyone to have a well rounded education to understand the things in the world around them. This includes the humanities, physics, chemistry, biology, and technology.
when the sender doesn't get an acknowledgment, it retransmits the message
When your round-trip communication time is on the order of 10 hours you might want to modify that strategy.
(not that it is hard to do so, just transmit the message multiple times with a sequence number so the client can detect the repeats)
I vote for the people who fund the telescopes or nukes. What I can do, personally, is vote for people who support funding programs to detect asteroids (and funding for science in general). I don't lie awake worrying about asteroid strikes, but I do try to voice my opinion for reasonable public policy.
Not at the level we need to be to detect all killer asteroids 20 years out. Not even close.
We can, and should, do something about it. It's not that hard to do. It takes lots of big telescopes to detect them a long way off. If you detect them far enough out you only need to give them a small nudge to change their course enough to avoid a collision.
the overall reflectivity drops with the square of the asteroid's diameter
Wouldn't it increase with the square of the diameter, because that's the surface area? Mass of course increases with the cube of the diameter, so the surface area to mass ratio decreases by the power of 3/2 with the diameter. The rest of what you said sounds right, so yes, it does take a really big telescope to detect them a long way off. The "average Joe" discoveries usually happen when they are already very close - too close to do anything about them.
But what is the reasonable precaution here? You say "Much Bigger Rockets" a few posts ago but what do you do with them? Do you build them and just leave them sitting around and hope we can knock an asteroid out of the sky with one? If instead we build the capability to detect all killer asteroids 20 years out (which seems reasonable with today's technology (it will be expensive, but less so than our wars)) then we would have 10 years to build a big rocket and get it to an asteroid and give it a tiny nudge, and a tiny nudge would be all it takes if you do it when the asteroid is still 10 years away. A detection network probably involves an array of space based telescopes and supercomputers to crunch the data, and we probably get a lot of good side uses out of that. There are lots of good side uses for big rockets too, but they don't help you deflect asteroids if you can't detect them years in advance.
Also regarding you comment on lightning and shark attacks, those kill individuals, not humanity. Big difference.
I'm 43, grew up in Florida, and never heard any creationist BS in public schools. The creationism resurgence seems like a new phenomenon to me.
when it passes over a huge city with lots of clients
Big cities will probably have no clients because there will be better ways to get internet access in a big city. This will be great for rural areas and ships in the middle of the ocean, and thus load will never be concentrated.
Acknowledging the consequences of gender is not sexist.
Yes, but calling for segregation is. So is stating that women are not capable of handling criticism (unless you've got some objective evidence). He said both of those things.
What's wrong with standing by your opinion?
What's wrong with standing by that particular opinion is that it is idiotic. He should be back-pedaling hard. I'd sure like to see more people (especially politicians) standing by well thought-out opinions, but this doesn't qualify as one.
I think the problem is not so much the office romance but the office breakup. Yours worked out because it didn't result in a breakup.
Um, no. We can, for example, make ethanol which we can use for fuel (not that I am endorsing that particular strategy). And sunlight and wind are effectively unlimited (until the sun burns out, in which case we would need to find a new home anyway). Uranium, coal, oil, and gas will run out long before that. That is difference between "fossil" and "renewable".
Uranium is made from dead stars. The point being that it is a limited supply and there is no way for us to make more.
This audio recorder (Zoom H4n) really freaks them out. I think it reminds them of a taser. No fun traveling with it, I get swabbed every time.
A normal functioning pancreas can't predict the future either. All it can do is react to what it is sensing, just like the artificial one. It may be more finely tuned, better sensors, better algorithms, etc, but none of that represents anything that couldn't be incrementally improved in the artificial pancreas.